Louisville & Nashville R. R. v. National Park Bank
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from. Morgan Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas W. Wert. Action by tbe National Parle Bank of New York against tbe Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
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Appeal from. Morgan Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas W. Wert. Action by tbe National Parle Bank of New York against tbe Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The following is amended count 5: Plaintiff claims of defendant tbe other and further sum of $150,000 damages suffered by it as a proximate result of a wrongful conspiracy entered into, to wit, the year 1905, by and between Knight, Yancey & Co., a partnership, doing business at Decatur, Ala., and the defendant Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, which conspiracy was…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, C. J.
Amended count 5 of the complaint, being the only one submitted to the jury, and which will be set out by the reporter, seeks to charge the defendant with liability for injury resulting to the plaintiff from the purchase by it of a certain bill of lading for 1,950 bales of cotton, purporting to have been issued by said defendant railroad company, but which was false and spurious, having been made up and uttered by Knight, Yancey & Co., resulting from a conspiracy entered into between said Knight, Yancey & Co. and defendant’s agent Bywater, or other of defendant’s agents whose names are unknown.
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- Jemison v. Birmingham & Atlantic RailroadSupreme Court of Alabama · 1899
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